I’m not going to compete with Obama, so here is news from a cricket tradgic. It is cricket, but in the end it is only a game. When champion teams like
So why are Indians burning effigies in the streets? Why is the Indian cricket administration threatening to pull out of the four game series? How could such a riveting and entertaining game turn sour after the fact?
The match was tainted by controversy, largely media driven I thought. The umpiring was under continual question, fuelled by constant, multi angle close up camera work and other technological intrusions. The big question was, should a player who knows full well they were legitimately out stand there ground on a poor umpiring decision? There were many dubious calls.
From the outset there was concern over racist slurs, a hangover from
But it wasn’t a spectator in the end, rather an Indian player, Harbhajan Singh, who faced disciplinary action for using the monkey term against Symonds. Come on guys, all grow up. At the start of the match there was a lot of talk about mutual friendship and respect; that is long gone.
Australian players have a reputation for some harsh ‘trash talk’. When the pressure is on they show that take no prisoners, killer instinct of champion sportsmen. But the other side of the coin is that you don’t dish it out if you can’t take it back.
The Australian players’ reputation has been diminished through this. A shame when they are breaking long held records, showing as the greatest cricket team ever in the records. The records are only part of the story, this nonsense will undo all of that.
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I know nothing of cricket, but I do know "trash talk", which I believe is a time-honored sports tradition. Isn't the idea to provoke a reaction that throws your opponent off his game? And isn't the proper response to NOT let it throw you off your game? At any rate, I would be proud to be characterized as a monkey. Primates'r U.S. Well, maybe I just don't understand the rules. But I do hope your teams can get back in the groove & let the love of the game shine through.
d.k. I really must thank enigma, who can sort of follow the game, for teaching me the right American term. We call it sledging, but you gotta talk the talk...
Still you understand the LOVE of the game. One of the few sports I enjoy and I don't even care about win and lose or which team. It is (was) poetry on a green field. Like everything, money is killing the spirit.
of Watergate Summer here...
I am so so sorry...I know this is not how it was supposed to be...and to think that such a game , a beautiful game could turn into this...
namaste...
Enigma, thanks. I'll get to the other comments through the day. Well the cricket is back on, too much money at stake. But what had been a brilliant match, and turned sour after the fact, has left a lingering bad taste. Perhaps all the talk of reviewing the 'spirit' of the game will have some effect.
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